President Jonathan some few minutes ago flagged off the great green wall
project for the north in Kebbi state.
The Great Green Wall initiative is a
pan-African proposal to “green” the continent from west to east in order to
battle desertification.
Its an audacious project which aims at tackling poverty
and the degradation of soils in the Sahel-Saharan region, focusing on a strip
of land of 15 km (9 mi) wide and 7,100 km (4,400 mi) long from Dakar to
Djibouti. Simply put for Nigeria, its a tree
planting exercise spanning Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, Kano, Jigawa, Yobe, Bauchi,
Gombe, Katsina, Adamawa and Borno states a distance over 1500kms.
For this 16 billion naira has been released
to fund the project till 2015.
President Jonathan in Kebbi today
No comments:
Post a Comment
Your comments are appreciated so long they are your opinions :)